The sun was shining.
The weather is nice and pleasant.
Girls in bloomers ran beside you.
Life was great at the moment.
“Lift those legs! Move it! Move it! I want to see some effort from you slackers!”
Or it would’ve been if you didn’t have a muscle-bound beefcake called “Coach” screaming bloody murder right behind you.
Spurred on, you pumped your legs harder, forcing yourself to pull just ahead of the others in your group. For the second time today, you got to experience just how pathetic Shujin’s physical prowess is. Everything hurt as your heart pounded away in your chest and your breath came in ragged gasps, but you kept moving regardless.
Because you doubted that you’d be able to get up again if you stopped.
So, you kept running as your group weaved through a massive obstacle course that would’ve put the ones back in your old world to shame.
Officially it’s called the “Playground.”
Unofficially, everyone called it the “Leg-Breaker.”
It was forest of twenty-meter-tall wooden poles. Rope cargo nets and bridges stretched between the poles that swayed, crossed, and crisscrossed one another. A literal maze suspended in the air. There were slide poles and knotted climbing ropes. There were swings and suspended platforms. There were ropes looped through pulleys and tied to baskets that looked sturdy enough to hoist a person.
All in all, it looked like an exercise enthusiast’s wet dream.
The path your group followed was a dirt trail that snaked its way through the Playground, which ran the circumference of the school and through the forest at the southern edge of the grounds.
“All right, that’s enough for now!” The coach called, after pushing another two laps through the Playground. The man didn’t have the grace to even appear winded as you and the rest of your P.E. mates were sprawled on the ground gasping for air. “Go get yourselves some water. You have ten minutes before we continue with our exercises. Understand!?”
“Yes, Coach!” Everyone shouted.
The man nodded, before wandering off elsewhere though you really didn’t care as you did your best impression of a fish as you suck in mouthfuls of the sweet, delicious air.
(((You look terrible.)))
“Thank you…haha…for your astute…haha…observation, Captain Obvious. Anything…haha…else you’d like to add?” You gasped, glowering at the air before rolling onto your belly.
(((That’s Captain Narrator to you Bud… but seriously, you need to get into better shape. I don’t think you’ll survive otherwise.)))
You couldn’t have agreed more as you pushed yourself up and struggled to your feet, your muscles aching from the abuse you’ve put them through today. Your eyes, however, were locked onto the water cooler just a dozen feet away. Though close as it was, each step had you swaying unsteadily like a reed caught in a high wind, but you staggered over there and grabbed a bottle.
You chugged it, the blissful chill helping calm your racing heart.
(((Feeling better now?)))
“Yeah.” You nodded, slumping down on the bench as your fellow victims…ahem, classmates slowly crawled their way to the water cooler as well. You handed out water as they came till all of you were slumped around the cooler in a semi-cycle. And grouped up as they were, you noticed something.
‘Hey Narrator, is it just me or are the students here a little too good-looking?’
You murmured as you snuck a glance at the girl sitting next to you. She was cute, with short black hair and modestly curvy but not someone that really stood out. And wasn’t just her either, both the guys and gals in your group were all decently attractive, yet they didn’t seem have that… “presence” that drew attention like Hotaru and Mio did.
Almost like they were just a part of the background.
(((That’s because they are Shujin.)))
‘Huh? What’s that suppose mean?’
(((Exactly as I said. They’re mobs Bud. Background characters. The people of this world that only exist in the background, filling the gaps behind the main characters.)))
‘Umm...isn’t that demeaning though?’ You glanced at your classmates. ‘Calling them background characters or mobs.’
(((Shujin, everyone is the “hero” of their own story. Just because this world was, well “tailored” for you doesn’t mean it’ll be the end if you suddenly got hit by a truck and died tomorrow. The world will go on; people will continue their daily life, everything will resume as normal except that you’ll no longer be here. It’s no different back in your world Shujin. You don’t know everyone and not everyone knows you, so by that definition, they’d be the Mobs of your life and you’d be just another face in the background of their life. And besides, we can't spend every chapter describing your classmates or the story will just grind to a halt.)))
You opened your mouth to argue but soon closed it.
The Narrator was right.
From what you’ve seen of the school so far, this place was absolutely huge, which made sense considering that it was the only Esper school in the entire country. Given that statistic, you and all the heroines combined probably wouldn’t have made up even a single percentile of the school’s current population. Even if this place was the world of the game, there’d be no feasible way for a school like this to function if it was only the main cast of the game attending. Which meant for every main character, there were probably a hundred background characters.
Wow.
‘It still doesn’t explain their appearance though.’
(((Meh. It's an unspoken rule of romcom. When was the last time you ever saw an "ugly" background character, especially a female one?)))
You thought for a moment, then shook your head.
(((Exactly. So, unless they're relevant to the story later on and receive a glow-up by their authors, there are almost no female Mobs that would be ugly. And in a school of this size, that means you're practically swimming in a sea of women that are either pretty or smoking hot...though not enough to draw your attention away from the heroines. And speaking of heroines...my spider-sense is tingling.)))
'Oh! Where? Where?'
(((Look to your right.)))
You did but saw nothing but the forest of poles that you'd just pass through.
Till you looked up.
And your jaw dropped.
Suspended high above the ground and balancing precariously on top of the one of the twenty-meter poles, was a tall figure sporting a familiar ponytail and wearing an all too familiar school's P.E. uniform.
Ai Sakaguchi.
The star athlete of the school's sport clubs and as one of the original heroines from the game's rooster, you easily recognized her despite the distance.
The other figure up there with her, however, you had no clue who she was.
Like Ai, she stood atop one of the poles, easily balancing on one foot and wore her hair in a ponytail as well. The similarities between the two ended their though as the other woman was obviously older, with pinkish-red hair compared to Ai's brown, and wore a tracksuit instead of a P.E. uniform. The jacket was left unzipped, for two very obvious reasons as the woman's breasts were quite simply huge!
She must be one of the new faces in this world that the Narrator mentioned, because...damn, that was one hot teacher.
Your staring drew the attention of your classmates, who following your line of sight started to make a racket. The boys cheered, wolf-whistling and the girls squealed about "Ai-senpai" this and "RokuJou-sensei" that.
What happened next left you utterly gob smacked.
One moment, Ai was balancing on top the pole then the next, she was sprinting, crossing the distance between her and RokuJou-sensei, sure-footed as a mountain goat. Unphased, RokuJou-sensei leapt left as Ai charged through the spot she'd just occupied. And Ai, in an impossible feat of strength, hooked one finger on a pole and used it to pivot herself around while keeping her momentum and shot toward the retreating RokuJou-sensei.
The older woman's grin was nothing short of wolfish as she suddenly dropped down, Ai zooming by above her and easily landed on the obstacle course below. Ai swung down after her, but RokuJou-sensei was already moving, leaping to the next obstacle, well over five-meters away with Ai hot on her heels.
You couldn't believe what you were seeing.
Somehow, Ai and RokuJou-sensei were pulling off anime-levels of acrobatics and strength...in a romcom setting!
It was impossible.
It shouldn't be.
But you couldn't tear your eyes away from the spectacle.
It was now a game of Cat-and-Mouse, with Ai desperately trying to catch her elusive opponent, who slipped through the Playground as nimbly as a monkey. Several times she came close, but RokuJou-sensei always slipped away at the last second with Ai overshooting her. Their match soon went right over your group's heads...literally.
"Go Ai-senpai!!!" The girls cheered.
"Go RokuJou-sensei!!!" The boys yelled.
"Holy Shit." you mumbled.
(((It’s a whole new world Bud.)))
Their game soon reached a new level as RokuJou-sensei suddenly up the ante, grabbing then throwing dodgeballs, which Ai caught off-guard. Several smacked her on her shoulder, hip, and thigh. The "Whump" you heard made you wince as you realized the power being put behind those throws. Ai, however, seemed unfazed as she quickly adjusted, catching the airborne balls and then began to return fire.
Which leads to your newest predicament.
"Look out!" One of your classmates screamed as balls began to rain around you...one coming right for your face.
The weather is nice and pleasant.
Girls in bloomers ran beside you.
Life was great at the moment.
“Lift those legs! Move it! Move it! I want to see some effort from you slackers!”
Or it would’ve been if you didn’t have a muscle-bound beefcake called “Coach” screaming bloody murder right behind you.
Spurred on, you pumped your legs harder, forcing yourself to pull just ahead of the others in your group. For the second time today, you got to experience just how pathetic Shujin’s physical prowess is. Everything hurt as your heart pounded away in your chest and your breath came in ragged gasps, but you kept moving regardless.
Because you doubted that you’d be able to get up again if you stopped.
So, you kept running as your group weaved through a massive obstacle course that would’ve put the ones back in your old world to shame.
Officially it’s called the “Playground.”
Unofficially, everyone called it the “Leg-Breaker.”
It was forest of twenty-meter-tall wooden poles. Rope cargo nets and bridges stretched between the poles that swayed, crossed, and crisscrossed one another. A literal maze suspended in the air. There were slide poles and knotted climbing ropes. There were swings and suspended platforms. There were ropes looped through pulleys and tied to baskets that looked sturdy enough to hoist a person.
All in all, it looked like an exercise enthusiast’s wet dream.
The path your group followed was a dirt trail that snaked its way through the Playground, which ran the circumference of the school and through the forest at the southern edge of the grounds.
“All right, that’s enough for now!” The coach called, after pushing another two laps through the Playground. The man didn’t have the grace to even appear winded as you and the rest of your P.E. mates were sprawled on the ground gasping for air. “Go get yourselves some water. You have ten minutes before we continue with our exercises. Understand!?”
“Yes, Coach!” Everyone shouted.
The man nodded, before wandering off elsewhere though you really didn’t care as you did your best impression of a fish as you suck in mouthfuls of the sweet, delicious air.
(((You look terrible.)))
“Thank you…haha…for your astute…haha…observation, Captain Obvious. Anything…haha…else you’d like to add?” You gasped, glowering at the air before rolling onto your belly.
(((That’s Captain Narrator to you Bud… but seriously, you need to get into better shape. I don’t think you’ll survive otherwise.)))
You couldn’t have agreed more as you pushed yourself up and struggled to your feet, your muscles aching from the abuse you’ve put them through today. Your eyes, however, were locked onto the water cooler just a dozen feet away. Though close as it was, each step had you swaying unsteadily like a reed caught in a high wind, but you staggered over there and grabbed a bottle.
You chugged it, the blissful chill helping calm your racing heart.
(((Feeling better now?)))
“Yeah.” You nodded, slumping down on the bench as your fellow victims…ahem, classmates slowly crawled their way to the water cooler as well. You handed out water as they came till all of you were slumped around the cooler in a semi-cycle. And grouped up as they were, you noticed something.
‘Hey Narrator, is it just me or are the students here a little too good-looking?’
You murmured as you snuck a glance at the girl sitting next to you. She was cute, with short black hair and modestly curvy but not someone that really stood out. And wasn’t just her either, both the guys and gals in your group were all decently attractive, yet they didn’t seem have that… “presence” that drew attention like Hotaru and Mio did.
Almost like they were just a part of the background.
(((That’s because they are Shujin.)))
‘Huh? What’s that suppose mean?’
(((Exactly as I said. They’re mobs Bud. Background characters. The people of this world that only exist in the background, filling the gaps behind the main characters.)))
‘Umm...isn’t that demeaning though?’ You glanced at your classmates. ‘Calling them background characters or mobs.’
(((Shujin, everyone is the “hero” of their own story. Just because this world was, well “tailored” for you doesn’t mean it’ll be the end if you suddenly got hit by a truck and died tomorrow. The world will go on; people will continue their daily life, everything will resume as normal except that you’ll no longer be here. It’s no different back in your world Shujin. You don’t know everyone and not everyone knows you, so by that definition, they’d be the Mobs of your life and you’d be just another face in the background of their life. And besides, we can't spend every chapter describing your classmates or the story will just grind to a halt.)))
You opened your mouth to argue but soon closed it.
The Narrator was right.
From what you’ve seen of the school so far, this place was absolutely huge, which made sense considering that it was the only Esper school in the entire country. Given that statistic, you and all the heroines combined probably wouldn’t have made up even a single percentile of the school’s current population. Even if this place was the world of the game, there’d be no feasible way for a school like this to function if it was only the main cast of the game attending. Which meant for every main character, there were probably a hundred background characters.
Wow.
‘It still doesn’t explain their appearance though.’
(((Meh. It's an unspoken rule of romcom. When was the last time you ever saw an "ugly" background character, especially a female one?)))
You thought for a moment, then shook your head.
(((Exactly. So, unless they're relevant to the story later on and receive a glow-up by their authors, there are almost no female Mobs that would be ugly. And in a school of this size, that means you're practically swimming in a sea of women that are either pretty or smoking hot...though not enough to draw your attention away from the heroines. And speaking of heroines...my spider-sense is tingling.)))
'Oh! Where? Where?'
(((Look to your right.)))
You did but saw nothing but the forest of poles that you'd just pass through.
Till you looked up.
And your jaw dropped.
Suspended high above the ground and balancing precariously on top of the one of the twenty-meter poles, was a tall figure sporting a familiar ponytail and wearing an all too familiar school's P.E. uniform.
Ai Sakaguchi.
The star athlete of the school's sport clubs and as one of the original heroines from the game's rooster, you easily recognized her despite the distance.
The other figure up there with her, however, you had no clue who she was.
Like Ai, she stood atop one of the poles, easily balancing on one foot and wore her hair in a ponytail as well. The similarities between the two ended their though as the other woman was obviously older, with pinkish-red hair compared to Ai's brown, and wore a tracksuit instead of a P.E. uniform. The jacket was left unzipped, for two very obvious reasons as the woman's breasts were quite simply huge!
She must be one of the new faces in this world that the Narrator mentioned, because...damn, that was one hot teacher.
Your staring drew the attention of your classmates, who following your line of sight started to make a racket. The boys cheered, wolf-whistling and the girls squealed about "Ai-senpai" this and "RokuJou-sensei" that.
What happened next left you utterly gob smacked.
One moment, Ai was balancing on top the pole then the next, she was sprinting, crossing the distance between her and RokuJou-sensei, sure-footed as a mountain goat. Unphased, RokuJou-sensei leapt left as Ai charged through the spot she'd just occupied. And Ai, in an impossible feat of strength, hooked one finger on a pole and used it to pivot herself around while keeping her momentum and shot toward the retreating RokuJou-sensei.
The older woman's grin was nothing short of wolfish as she suddenly dropped down, Ai zooming by above her and easily landed on the obstacle course below. Ai swung down after her, but RokuJou-sensei was already moving, leaping to the next obstacle, well over five-meters away with Ai hot on her heels.
You couldn't believe what you were seeing.
Somehow, Ai and RokuJou-sensei were pulling off anime-levels of acrobatics and strength...in a romcom setting!
It was impossible.
It shouldn't be.
But you couldn't tear your eyes away from the spectacle.
It was now a game of Cat-and-Mouse, with Ai desperately trying to catch her elusive opponent, who slipped through the Playground as nimbly as a monkey. Several times she came close, but RokuJou-sensei always slipped away at the last second with Ai overshooting her. Their match soon went right over your group's heads...literally.
"Go Ai-senpai!!!" The girls cheered.
"Go RokuJou-sensei!!!" The boys yelled.
"Holy Shit." you mumbled.
(((It’s a whole new world Bud.)))
Their game soon reached a new level as RokuJou-sensei suddenly up the ante, grabbing then throwing dodgeballs, which Ai caught off-guard. Several smacked her on her shoulder, hip, and thigh. The "Whump" you heard made you wince as you realized the power being put behind those throws. Ai, however, seemed unfazed as she quickly adjusted, catching the airborne balls and then began to return fire.
Which leads to your newest predicament.
"Look out!" One of your classmates screamed as balls began to rain around you...one coming right for your face.
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